Folding bed



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- 'K. L. HYLLER.

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Patented Dec. 11,1894.

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KNUD;L. HYLLER, OF oHicAeo, ILLINOIS,

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,777, dated December 11, 1894.

Application filed February 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KNUD L. HYLLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, which are fullyset forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

.This invention relates to beds of the class in which the bed frame tilts from the horizontal position of use to a vertical position within an upright head frame, and itconsists in the devices hereinafter shown and claimed for operating a canopy which finishes the top of the head frame and overhangs the head of thebed when the latter is folded down to horizontal position.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is'asectional side elevation of a bed having my improvement in respect to the canopy, a portion of one side of the head-frame and head end of the bed frame being broken away to show the parts pertaining to my invention, said frames being cut in vertical section at a point midway in the width of the bed.

A represents the bed-frame; B, one of the sides of the upright head-frame; B, the arm of the otherside, of which the remainder is broken away to disclose the side B and the operating mechanism pertaining to my invention.

O is. the cushion seat, of which B forms a side arm when the bed is folded upright, such seat being then located in front of the bed.

D is a head panel, which, at the upper end, slides up and down in the head frame, and at the lower end is hinged to the lower end of the bed frame, and which, when the bed is down, closes upon the rear opening in the head frame in a manner Well understood, and constitutes an ornamental head-board, and when the bed is folded up is withdrawn and leaves the opening at the upper part of the head-frame for ventilation according to a method also familiar.

E is a canopy, which is secured to the rear edge to the upper edge of the sliding headboard D of the head-frame and. at the for-.

ward part'is secured to and droops from the cross-bar F of a bow frameof which one of 1894:. SerialNo.499,6l8. (Nomodel-l the side-bars F' is shown, the other being precisely similar and extending in a similar manner, parallel with the bar which appears, at the opposite side of the bed-frame, each passing through a sleeve G pivoted at g to the adjacent check of the upright frame, the

until, when the bed is upright, the bar F 00- cupies a position below the top at the rear of the head-frame, where the dotted lines representing the several parts show their new position. The canopy in this position hangs drooped from the bar F, and from the upper edge of the sliding head-board D, as shown in dotted lines, and is therefore entirely behind the bed which will be finished on the side which -is forward when the bed is up and downward when the bed is down, so as to present a finishedappearance corresponding suitably to the ornamental effect produced by the head-board and canopy when the bed is down. If the head-board of the upright frame had a fixed instead of a sliding panel, the construction in other respects would be identical with that shown, the canopy drooping from the top of the head-board and from the bar F in the same manner as it droops .therear edge to the head frame: substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the upright head frame and the bed frame pivoted thereto, the

sliding head-board of the head-frame: substantially as set forth. i i

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my hand, at Chicago, Illinois, this 6th day of I 5 February, 1894:, in the presence of two witnesses.

KNUD L. HYLLER.

Witnessesi CHAS. S. BURTON, J EAN ELLIOTT. 

